[Dean's World] Dave Price: September Chill

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Posted by Dave Price:
September Chill
http://www.deanesmay.com/posts/1157731661.shtml


   The 9/11 "docudrama" (i.e. fictionalized version of historical events)
   ABC is planning to air tonight generated a letter from Democratic
   senators, which John Aravosis says is a [1]threat to yank their
   license, and Kos [2]links that interpretation approvingly.
   Pull a network off the air. Over an explicitly fictional show that
   [3]isn't even all that inaccurate, just because it criticizes
   Democrats. Even the threat of such an action is absolutely appalling
   in its audacious disregard for the Constitution and free speech. Think
   about that: not because it incites violence, or discloses national
   security secrets, or encourages terrorists, but because it has a
   viewpoint critical of a former administration. This is not a dispute
   over whether the President's wiretapping of terrorists might make
   people less free to talk on the phone, or whether calling someone
   unpatriotic "crushes their dissent," this is directly wielding the
   power of the government to punish opposing views: these are police
   state tactics. This is the kind of thing people like Ahmadinejad, Kim
   Jong Il, and Saddam Hussein do -- and the nutroots couldn't be happier
   about it, because it serves their ends.
   This seems to be a concrete example of what Kos and Co. mean when they
   talk about being tactical, not ideological: it's a nice way of saying
   they have no principles whatsoever beneath their partisan lust for
   power. This is deeply disturbing, much more so than Kos' "screw them"
   comments, because now they're talking about exercising power, in a way
   they would be screaming bloody murder over were the situation
   reversed.
   This is exactly the sort of behavior that forces me to vote Republican
   even when I disagree with half their platform. Hopefully, the American
   people still believe the First Amendment should be upheld by both
   parties, and will act accordingly in November.

References

   1. http://americablog.blogspot.com/2006/09/senate-democratic-leadership-threatens.html
   2. http://americablog.blogspot.com/2006/09/senate-democratic-leadership-threatens.html
   3. http://www.townhall.com/blog/g/27637ec6-dee6-4b26-90ac-87e631875279